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The infant had to be protected from the evil eye, thus the midwife would tie a red ribbon on the infant’s right arm.
To protect it from diseases and evil, coals would be cooled in a bath.
As a rite, that bath would be the infant’s first bath.
Things would be brought to the infant, such as: coins, basil, sugar, so that the infant would grow up to be: “Precious as silver / sweet as honey/ good like bread/ healthy as an egg, Red as a rose/ attractive like basil/ White as milk.”
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